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Why the Cowboys should consider trading Sam Williams

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Do you think there are any players the Cowboys should consider trading?

It feels like only yesterday when the Dallas Cowboys' war room was excited about the selection of Mississippi edge rusher Sam Williams. The 56th overall pick in 2022, Williams was an exciting pass-rushing prospect. He was a missile off the line of scrimmage. His ability to bend and accelerate to the quarterback made him an intriguing player that the team added to their defensive end arsenal.

Over his first two years in the league, Williams was buried behind a very deep Cowboys edge-rushing unit. He finished with the fifth-most defensive end snap counts in both 2022 and 2023. That’s because Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence were the bread and butter of the edge attack force. At the same time, Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler were productive veteran defensive linemen who had no intention of stepping aside for this young buck.

Despite being on the shorter end of playing time, Williams made the most of his opportunities. He had 10 tackles for a loss and three forced fumbles in his rookie season, where he finished fifth in voting for Defensive Rookie of the Year. There was no shortage of splash plays where he was found sacking quarterbacks or bodyslamming ball carriers in the backfield. “Slam” Williams was a real thing.

Sadly, the moment a great opportunity presented itself, Williams wasn’t around to take advantage. After Armstrong and Fowler left for Washington in free agency last year, the table was set for Williams to have his breakout season. Unfortunately, a knee injury in training camp ended his season before it even started.

Williams’ recovery is going well, and he is expected to be 100% entering training camp. That’s great news for a guy who is entering a contract season as he is in the final year of his four-year rookie deal. If there is a time to shine, that time is now.

While his health is better, the young pass-rusher enters an all too familiar situation where he finds himself once again in a crowded position group. Guys like Lawrence and Chauncey Golston left in free agency this year, but the team has reloaded over the last 15 months. Starting with back-to-back seasons where the team selected edge rushers Marshawn Kneeland and Donovan Ezeiruaku, suddenly the team has a couple of young players whom they’ll want to give playing time to.

The Cowboys also addressed the position in free agency this spring before Ezeiruaku fell into their lap in the second round of the draft. The team signed two former first-round picks in free agency, Dante Fowler and Payton Turner. The addition of Fowler is particularly worth noting as he is coming off a double-digit sack season and should be a key member of the Cowboys' edge-rushing rotation.

Last season, the Cowboys were hit hard with injuries along the edge, forcing them to reach deep, relying on players like Golston and Carl Lawson. This year, they are stacked with talent, which poses the question: What does it all mean for Williams?

As it stands now, it’s going to be difficult for the team to find enough playing time for all their edge rushers. Kneeland is entering year two, and he should see the field plenty as he’s one of the better run-stopping defensive ends. Fowler is the team’s fiercest sub-package pass-rushing option, so his role should be well-defined. Williams could slide in as DE#4 in a best-case scenario, but what happens if either the rookie Ezeiruaku or the free agent Turner starts turning heads? Even with keeping a safety-net depth surplus of players, the team could find itself a little saturated at the position group if one of these new guys is showing out.

Training camp will provide more data, but if the Cowboys are in a situation where they are six players deep at defensive end with no ability to give everyone adequate playing time, they should look into reallocating their resources. Imagine a healthy Williams on full display in preseason games against third-string offensive tackles. What kind of buzz could that generate? Could they flip him for a player who could provide them a greater service at another position? Or possibly help replenish next year’s draft capital?

With a deep group filled with many young homegrown players, Williams could be the odd man out. Other factors might come into play as well. Does he have the strength to help against the run, or is he just a one-trick pony? Does he approach the game the right way for the new coaching staff, whether it’s character, mental processing, or overall effort? These are legit questions that will reveal themselves soon enough, but there’s a range of outcomes that could find Williams on the trading block as final roster cuts approach.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...d-consider-trading-sam-williams-defensive-end

 

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Determining the ‘jenga piece’ for the 2025 Dallas Cowboys

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There are several players who fit the “jenga piece” criteria for the 2025 Dallas Cowboys.

An idea that interests me when talking about professional football teams and their rosters is figuring out who are the jenga pieces. This idea served as our discussion prompt here at BTB last Thursday. In case you missed that or are unaware of what a jenga piece is, here is the 101.

A popular board game (for lack of a better term) is Jenga. The rules of the game are that you have to stack wooden blocks and build as tall of a tower as you can. Once you use all of the blocks you have to remove pieces from the tower you have constructed to build your tower even higher. The trick is that you have to remove pieces carefully and ultimately make the right decision as to which ones you do want to remove so that the tower does not come tumbling down.

Relative to a football roster, we are on the hunt for which Dallas Cowboys players are the critical ones within the structure of the tower. We are talking about the players whom without the whole thing would tumble down. To be clear we are establishing right now that the position of quarterback is uniquely important and that without it the tower does not exist, so we are talking about non-quarterback options.

In terms of the 2025 version of the Dallas Cowboys there are five names that stand out.

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Tyler Guyton​

Ultimately the answer is probably one of two people and that you can sway me in either direction depending on the day or moment. One of these two is second-year left tackle Tyler Guyton.

It makes sense to not panic over Guyton’s lack of an All-Pro first year in the NFL. For so long we were spoiled by the likes of Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin that we forgot what normal was like for even really, really good offensive line prospects. It takes time, generally speaking, to adjust to the professional level.

Understanding this, so much hinges on Guyton being the guy at left tackle in 2025. We are way past the point of considering Tyler Smith for that spot so this is sort of a situation where it is either going to work or not and the latter is not an option that we want to learn the outcome of.

Given that Guyton is charged with protecting Dak Prescott’s blind spot he holds an extreme level of importance. He is a foundational member to the team and so much of what they are going to do rests upon his shoulders.

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CeeDee Lamb​

This is the other top option and both feel a little bit like cheating since they are extensions to and insurances around the play of the quarterback. Such is life for a team’s left tackle and top pass-catching option.

We have said forever and ever how the Cowboys not having a proper second wideout has hindered the offense (more on that in a bit). While that is true, without their top receiving option they would be up a proverbial creek. For the most part Lamb has been available for the Cowboys since they drafted him (we are somehow entering year six with him on the team) and so we haven’t quite had to learn what life without his services is like.

Can you imagine? Obviously you don’t want to and thankfully after last year’s extension drama we don’t have to. But without doing so we all understand how supremely important Lamb is to what this team is looking to accomplish.

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Micah Parsons​

You can file this under Duh with a capital D. Micah Parsons it the best player on the Cowboys roster so without him they are nowhere near as good. If the team were ever in a situation where his future was even mildly up in the air, say with contract stuff, that they probably would want to take care of that as soon as possible. Thankfully that is not the case oops. Oops.

The reason that Parsons is a bit lower on my list is because he missed time last year, and while the team obviously was not as good without him, they did not totally fall apart. We can attribute this to a variety of things, but the main one is likely that today’s NFL is an offense-driven league and therefore your offensive superstars carry a little more worth in the terms of the discussion that we are having.

To be clear this is in no way to say that Parsons isn’t as valuable, or more valuable, than any one player. It’s just that he missed time last year and that the wheels did not fall off so that makes this conversation in this moment seem strange.

Don’t get it twisted, though. Micah Parsons is essential. Now and always. Pay the man.

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DaRon Bland​

The situation at cornerback makes a player from this group an obvious pick.

Trevon Diggs is regarded as the top corner on the team, but DaRon Bland is more of a jenga piece in this exercise. Consider that we have some questions about Diggs at the moment. Will he be healthy? If so for how long? What is the future like for him with this team? There are some clouds there.

This exacerbates the importance of DaRon Bland. Another way to put this is that he has the highest floor of any corner on the team, and while there are other players who can raise it like if Kaiir Elam hits or Shavon Revel plays himself and is solid, the reality is that Bland is needed and sorely so.

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Brandon Aubrey​

In looking at the comments from our discussion prompt there were a number of people who suggested kicker Brandon Aubrey. I thought about George Pickens for this spot but that just felt like repeating CeeDee Lamb.

Kicking plays a larger role than most people are willing to give credit. Given that the Cowboys arguably have the best kicker in the entire NFL on their roster, that elevates the importance and role that Aubrey plays within the team.

Aubrey’s distance and his control from downtown are specifically what put him in this conversation. You barely have to cross midfield to be in his range which increases your probability of scoring points. Without him and that luxury, the notion of scoring is more taxing (in a literal sense) on the overall operation of the team. He provides a great relief, so to speak.

Aubrey is another player on this list who is currently set to enter the final year of their contract with the Cowboys (along with Parsons there is also Bland in this overall regard) which suggests that the team has some work to do.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-guyton-micah-parsons-daron-bland-ceedee-lamb

 

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Dueling Cowboys 53-man roster projections heading into training camp

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We are going to see a lot of 53-man roster predictions in the coming weeks.

Every year at around this time, the first 53-man roster projections pop up. And (almost) every year we dutifully chronicle those first roster projections. I usually preface these summaries with an introduction like this:

“Not to be a killjoy here, but if the past 15 years or so that I’ve been intensely following the Dallas Cowboys training camp have taught me anything, it’s that rosters are largely set before the offseason program even begins, and most of the extra players brought in are little more than sparring and training partners for the roster locks.

That is the stark reality of NFL life.

Injuries and standout performances in camp provide the opportunity for maybe a handful of players each year to work their way onto the roster, but that’s pretty much it.”

That sure sounds nice and sufficiently nonchalant to perhaps even appear insightful, but is that actually true?

To find out, I took a look at the roster projections summaries published in July of 2024 and July of 2023.

To my surprise, the panelists we assembled in 2023 (Dave Helman of Foxsports, Todd Archer of ESPN, Jon Machota of The Athletic, and Dan Rogers of Blogging The Boys) averaged just 44 players in their projections that would end up on the Week 1 roster that year. And the panelists in 2024 (Todd Archer, Jon Machota, and Mike Fisher of Cowboys Nation) came in even lower with an average of 43 players. Here’s a quick summary of the results of each of the seven panelists:

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There were, of course, differences in each projection that resulted in the different number of hits. For example - and you may find this hard to believe today - in 2023, then-rookie Brandon Aubrey was heading into a training camp battle with another kicker named Tristan Vizcaino, and one of our panelists picked Vizcaino over Aubrey.

But what is interesting is that in both years, eight players made the Week 1 roster that did not show up on any of the July projections. Some of them are obvious, like players acquired via trade of free agency after the start of training camp, others perhaps less so, like former late-round picks or UDFAs that either benefited from an injury to a player at the same position or played themselves onto the roster with a good training camp performance. Here’s an overview of those players and how they came to join the roster:

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Jordan Phillips​

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Trey Lance​

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Andrew Booth​

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Linval Joseph​

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Tyrus Wheat​

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So now we know that rosters might not be quite as set as they may appear; the Cowboys can still bring in new players, and there may be down-roster players who’ll play themselves onto a spot on the 53-mn roster. Keep that in mind as you review the dueling roster projections by Jon Machota of The Athletic and Joseph Hoyt of the DMN below.

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Machota and Hoyt are largely aligned on offense, with some differences on the number of players the Cowboys will carry at WR, RB, and OL. Is this the chance for downroster guys like Ryan Flournoy or maybe John Stevens to make a push for a roster spot?

Not a lot of surprises on defense either:

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As far as projections go, these two have probably summarized the general sentiment about the roster pretty well at this point of the offseason.

Suspensions (knock on wood), trades, injuries (knock on wood three times), and other things of that nature (knock on wood vigorously) tend to disrupt these projections. But that’s also where depth guys then get to step up and seize their opportunity.

What’s your take on the two projections above, and where do you think they got it wrong?

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...ining-camp-player-additions-trade-free-agents

 

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Cowboys survey: Predicting the season with training camp roster

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How many wins do you think the Cowboys will finish this season with?

We’ve almost made it. The vast void of the offseason is quickly coming to a close. In a week, the Dallas Cowboys will be in Oxnard, California opening training camp and pushing the 2025 season on to the stage.

At this point, we have a pretty good idea of who will be on the roster. Sure, changes will be made around the edges, but the bulk of the 2025 team is already signed.

Given that, we thought it would be a good time to read the room on expectations for the Cowboys 2025 season. A lot has changed since those early weeks of the offseason when Jerry Jones was still negotiating with Mike McCarthy for a return.

Since then, we have seen the Cowboys turn to Brian Schottenheimer as a head coach and many Cowboys fans have been pleasantly surprised about his early work as head coach. The Cowboys also made an effort in free agency, made some trades that included the big one for George Pickens, and they had a pretty good draft.

We have also learned that Dak Prescott is fully recovered from injury and will be a full-go at training camp. And we also know their schedule of who, when and where they will play.

Now that we are on the precipice of training camp, we wanted your opinion on how many games the Cowboys will win this year.

Vote in the poll then hit the comments.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Dallas Cowboys fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...dicting-season-win-total-training-camp-roster

 

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NFC East news: New York’s dynamic running back is ready for Year 2

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How concerned are you about the Giants this year?

Giants Now: Tyrone Tracy Jr. named to 2025 All-Breakout Team - Matt Citak, Giants.com​

New York’s running back looks poised to shine this upcoming season.

Following his solid rookie campaign, could running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. be in for an even bigger season this year?

NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks recently released his 2025 All-Breakout Team, which consists of second- and third-year players from around the league that the analyst believes could have big performances this coming season.

When it came to the running back position, Tracy was the selection.

“After rushing for 839 yards as a rookie, the fifth-round running back has an opportunity to surpass the 1,200-yard mark in an offense that features more efficient quarterback play with veteran leader Russell Wilson set to take over from Daniel Jones,” wrote Brooks. “The improved passing game will lead to more light boxes (six or fewer defenders) and wider lanes for the former college wide receiver to scoot through on off-tackle runs and designed cut-back plays. With Wilson also expected to target Tracy frequently on swing, screen and option routes in the pass game, the Giants’ unheralded RB1 could put up massive scrimmage yard totals as a multi-purpose threat from the backfield.”

Along with his 839 yards on the ground, Tracy also added 284 receiving yards, which gave him 1,123 total yards from scrimmage.

Tracy and wide receiver Malik Nabers became just the third rookie duo in NFL history to each have 1,000+ yards from scrimmage.

The young running back scored six total touchdowns, five on the ground and one through the air, to go with his 4.4 average yards per carry. His 284 receiving yards came on 38 receptions, which ranked fourth on the team.

What made his rookie year performance even more impressive is the fact that it came in what was only Tracy’s second full season playing the running back position. The former wide receiver transitioned to running back in his final year at Purdue, which led to the Giants selecting him in the fifth-round of the 2024 NFL Draft.

“I wouldn’t say it’s any different than last year, really,” Tracy said to the media during OTAs about his thoughts going into the upcoming season. “The only difference is I’ve been here before. I know what’s going to happen. I know training camp is coming up. I know I’ve got to prepare my body, prepare my mind, prepare my soul for what’s going to happen during the season. But I’m still grinding, man. I’m still grinding. There’s really no safe space in the league. In the NFL, everyone’s trying to take your spot. I’m grinding every day trying to make sure that the coaches can trust me and that my teammates trust me...’

Eagles’ Nick Sirianni Blasts Criticism Of ‘Great’ Jalen Hurts - Daniel Arwas, Heavy.com​

Philadelphia’s head coach stepped up for his quarterback.

Even now as world champions, the Philadelphia Eagles feel they are not quite getting the credit and respect they deserve.

Well, correction – two people likely feel that way: head coach, Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts.

Sirianni has always been seen as a second-tier head coach, despite leading the Eagles to the playoffs and a Super Bowl appearance back in February 2023.

However, having garnered a Super Bowl ring of his own with Philadelphia, their second in franchise history, the former Colts OC has begun to field more respect – especially in media circles, where two seperate NBC and CBS head coaching rankings had Sirianni as a top-five HC in the NFL.

Yet this uptick in respect the same cannot be seen for Hurts. In a recent poll of head coaches and execs by ESPN, Hurts was ranked as just the 9th best quarterback in the league, behind the likes of Justin Herbert and Jared Goff, who have a combined one playoff win with their current franchises.

And Nick Sirianni, for one, is fed up with the disrespect shown towards his franchise quarterback amidst critiques from fans and media that Hurts is scaffolded by the excellent roster around him built by future Hall of Fame general manager, Howie Roseman.

“That’s bull-“, Sirianni said per NBC Sports, when asked about the perception that Hurts is just a game manager with an excellent team around him.

“Anytime I hear that, it’s cool,” Sirianni continued, “it’s like a nice debate thing that people like to have. And I get it, there’s a lot of hours that TV shows and radio stations have to fill to be able to fill that debate. I understand that, but we’re talking about the ultimate team game there is and he does whatever he needs to do to win each and every game.”

Where does Commanders’ Dan Quinn land in head coach rankings? - Jeremy Brener, RiggosRag.com​

After one remarkable season in Washington, where does DQ rank among head coaches?

Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has worked hard to get to where he is in the NFL.

He’s with his second team as a head coach and he hopes to take the Commanders where he took the Atlanta Falcons — all the way to the Super Bowl.

CBS Sports writer Cody Benjamin doesn’t think Quinn is among the elite head coaches in the NFL, placing him at No. 14 on his rankings.

Quinn lands in middle of the pack

“Few coaches enjoyed such a catapult in stock in 2024. That may be mostly due to Jayden Daniels’ magical dynamism at quarterback. His coordinator hire of Kliff Kingsbury was part of the equation, though, as was his experience on the playoff stage,” Benjamin wrote.

The coaches that landed ahead of Quinn were Kevin Stefanski (Cleveland Browns), Sean McDermott (Buffalo Bills), Sean Payton (Denver Broncos), Mike Tomlin (Pittsburgh Steelers), Kevin O’Connell (Minnesota Vikings), Matt LaFleur (Green Bay Packers), Kyle Shanahan (San Francisco 49ers), Jim Harbaugh (Los Angeles Chargers), Dan Campbell (Detroit Lions), Nick Sirianni (Philadelphia Eagles), John Harbaugh (Baltimore Ravens), Sean McVay (Los Angeles Rams) and Andy Reid (Kansas City Chiefs).

The placement in the rankings is slightly disrespectful to Quinn, who tripled Washington’s win total and took the team all the way to the NFC Championship.

Sure, Daniels deserves the credit, but Quinn was also a big part of the team’s success.

Quinn will look to prove these critics wrong as he enters his second season with the team. He’ll kick off training camp when rookies report later this week and veterans come in early next week.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...cy-eagles-nick-sirianni-jalen-hurts-dan-quinn

 

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Cowboys trivia: Your in-5 daily game, Thursday edition

Think you can figure out which Cowboys player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out in our new guessing game!

Hey Cowboys fans! We’re back for another day of the Blogging The Boys in-5 daily trivia game. Game instructions are at the bottom if you’re new to the game! Feel free to share your results in the comments and feedback in this Google Form.

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